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    "content": "amendment does is to ensure that we have communicated but we have also got feedback from that communication. Let me also take this opportunity to say that when we travelled with Sen. Njoroge to Thailand and China, one of the issues that we raised with the government representatives in those countries was the possibility of having a conference here in Nairobi for the physically challenged and disabled Members of Parliament from various countries all over the world. In the Committee on Information and Communication, because that is where the idea came from, we are aware that this conference is planned. Sen. Njoroge has been in the forefront of ensuring that this happens. The Committee on Labour and Social Welfare where this issue will fall eventually is also asked to be in it to ensure that Kenya takes a strong position in terms of highlighting the plight of disabled persons across the globe. If this conference happens in Kenya it will be because this Senate created the idea and went on to implement it. I would like to use this opportunity to ask that the Senate goes very strongly to support this effort. We have challenged that the global conference on Members of Parliament who are physically challenged be held here in Nairobi. In addition to that, the Committee on Information and Technology Technology looks very strongly at how we can use ICT to assist create opportunities for persons with disability. If you travel to India and visit the call centres and other back office operations that India is famous for, you will find very many blind persons who have got earphones and communicating with people in America and all over the world. To speak to somebody else and explain something, one does not need to see. You just need to be able to hear. Being blind does not mean in any way that you are any lesser than anybody else in terms of mental capacity. Therefore, we believe that if we centralize and make ICT a singular part of the work that we are doing in our country, it will be possible to provide more than sufficient opportunities for persons who are very able to do some of the jobs that are created by use of information and communication technology. I once again want to thank Sen. Njoroge. Last night, we discussed with Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr, Sen. Kanainza, Sen. (Prof.) Lesan and other Members of the Committee on Information and Technology that we also intend--- If you look at this sitting, it is, in fact, a sitting of the Committee on Information and Communication except for one agriculturalist."
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